Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-09-01
FARM AND GARDEN.
RAp1snEs IN HOT WEATHER.

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| need to be grown quickly, and should,
therefore, succeed best in hot weather,
| provided there is sufficient moisture in
4 the soil to keep them growing. Worms
can be kept out by dosing the radish
| bed literally with lcaohed ashes. These
| also help to preserve moisture in light
\ soil.
BLACK AND RED RAsPBERRIES.
1t is somewhat strange to the unin-
tiated that black caps are lower in
price than the best red raspberrics.
The explanation is to be found in the
plantations. The blacks are most pro-
'ductive, most easily picked and most
easily grown. Still both arc fairly
profitable. more so generally than
strawberries. as owing to the demand
for drying and canning there is always
, good demand for them at fair prices.
WEEDS IN POTATOES.
The labor of keeping patatoes free
from weeds late in the season needs to
be done carefully, so as not to disturb
the setting tubers. But it will pay, not
only in the better crop tn ereby pro-
duced, but in the ease of harvesting it.
Few potato digging machines will do
good work, and none perfect work
where the grou nd is weedy. The most
careful hand digging in some pieces
| will still leave some of the crop.
WILD CARROT SEED.
1t is the general belief of farmers, and
is probably correct, that wild carrot is
the degenerate ed product of the carrot
| of our gardens, allowed to 20 to seed
| and grow under unfavOrablc circum-
| stances. 1t is bad weed where it gets
a foothold. 1t is probably best for
farmers to let market gardeners have
a monopoly of growing carrot seed.
They keep their land thoroughly cult
waited and do n OF allow stray seeds to
run wild and become weed.
HORSERADISH SEED.
Aparagraph is going the rounds say
ing that the horsera,ish plant never
produces seed; that its only mode OF
spreading is from the root. 1t does
not really need any other method OF
propagation, but we have seen a few
horseradsh seed on plants where the
soil was thin and poor. AS usually
planted ON rich gardens or alluvial
soil the plant has no instinct teaching
it the need of producing seed. Place
it where it is pinched and likely to die,
and it will propagate seed the same as
all othcrplauts.
| WHOLE GRAIN FOR FOWLS.
Poultry do not need their food mas.
ticated. ii they did nature would have
provided them with teeth. and, as
everybody knows, ''as scarce as hens
teeth" has become proverb. The
work of mast cation is done in theil
! ri Il" BdSttb.y the aid of stones and shells
this mill suitably provided with hare
food that needs grinding up. Young
chicks are often injured by having toe
large proportion of soft, watcry food
1t does not give the z zzard sufficient
exercise. Try feeding whole wheat ;
little while. The chicks Will becom,
hard, plump and lively.
NEW OATS AND NEW HAY.
Oats of this seasons growth, unit
thoroughly dried, are laxative. 50 also
is new hay. The two together are apt
to give horses the scourS when changed
suddenly to them from dry feed. 1t is
better where new hay is fed to pay al
increased price for old oats, and thus
keep the team in working condition.
The higher price is well repaid in the
increased nutrition and strength that
old oats vii give working team.
Where horses are not ut work they
need few oats, while q little laxative
ness while resting does not injure them
1t is while hard at work that inferior
feed has its worst effect in reducing
condition.
| BLACKBERRIES For HEALTH.
The blackberry Il tlrT> from other
fruits in being n chcvN ~ on laxative
ness. 1t ripens later l!Ian other small
fruits, thus coming ut Il time when the
nights begin to be cooler and the dam
ger from Summer complaint thereby
increased. 1t is toward Fall that laxa-
tiveness of bowels is most apt to run
into dysenteries, because then the pa
tent is more likely to be suddenly chill
ed. Blackberries never hurt any one
in this respect. If the fruit cannot be
had, either fresh or dried. tea made
of the root is equally beneficial. All
owe their good effect to very slight
astringent quality which this plant and
its fruit possess.
JUDGING SHEEP.
1t requires practice and long expert
ence to enable man to judge correctly
of sheep. To the unpractised eye a
flock of the same breed. with their
uniform coats, ike an exact reproduc-
ton of some one animal. But good
shepherd knows each sheep by its
face. part not generally covered with
wool, and which in each presents some
individual characteristic. The coat of
wool does not hide the sheep from a
practised Judge. He can see beneath
hat and tell whether the animal is fat
or lean, young or old. At this season
wool is short and beginners can take
easy lessons in Judging sheep, growing
harder through Fall and Winter.
WATER FOR SHEEP IN PASTURE.
There is possibly no greater cruelty
to animals, or loss to their owner, than
resulting from the prevalent uetion
among farmers that sheep do not need
water at pasture. They can perhaps
live without it, eating grass loaded
with dews. and having chance TO
drink when occasional heavy rains
leave puddles on the surface. This is,
however, poor and unreliable supply.
Where clear running water is provided,
sheep will drink always at least once a
day. In August, when pastures arc
dried IN and tbara ORR cn,notip N, as